How long does it take you to get to your SO?

[kat4301]

We are a five hour drive apart, I have only ever driven never taken a plane, train, or bus; one side of Virginia to the next. I also appreciate our close distance when I see everyone's else's travel time. Kudos

[Trethsparr]

When we were LD, it was a 2 to 2.5 hour commercial flight between San Diego, CA and Portland, OR.

[Sierra]

4 hours by plane

[Haley53]

On average a 14-16hour flight, including the layover. Travel can get to 17+ hours but I try to avoid booking those flights.

[plattsea]

Well with me living in japan to get to my fiance´ it takes about 18-20hrs via flight and that is from sasebo->fukuoka->tokyo->DC.
the time on the plane flies just because i know i am going home to her and she wis gonna be there at the air port waiting for me to get there.

[lademoiselle]

If you include the time it takes to get from my house to Central London, about 3 hours in total by train. On one occasion my SO travelled here by coach and another time on the ferry - when you add up all the hours, the journeys took him 8 and 12 respectively.

[Katelyn]

7.5 hours by car. I will no longer complain about my drive =)

[Kristin91]

6 hour drive, or 12 hours if I take the bus including layovers and switching buses. But when we're both in our home towns it's a 15-20 minute drive, I love it!

[Tooki]

It takes me around 24 hours to get from Melbourne to Tallinn. (And that is the 'direct route' via Helsinki)

It takes about 7 hours to fly from Melbourne to a major Asian destination. From there it is roughly 13 hours from Asia to Helsinki. Then I get a 30 min flight across the gulf from Helsinki to Tallinn. As it is all connected I only end up with 90 minute layovers between flights and I just need to transfer.

[~whendarknessfalls]

It's about a 4 to 6 hour flight, depending on whether or not we do a nonstop. we're ~2300 miles apart...

[Caitlin2009]

it depends. i mean the last time i flew to her it took 3-4 hours from Hartford, ct to Florida, from Florida to London 6-7 hours, then from London to Edinburgh an hour and a half. so all in all it was 11-12 hours O_o im not looking forward to that flight again but it will be worth it!!! and the flight from Florida to London was so annoying mainly because i had this Chinese man fall asleep on me snoring like a banshee :/ to top that off he was hard to wake up when i had to go to the bathroom because i would wake him and then he would fall asleep in mid isle so i couldnt go through, finally i had enough and had to be a rude bitch and say "Listen! Move! I need to go to the bathroom!!" taught me a lesson to never have the window seat ever again!

[magician13134]

The first two years it was about a four hour flight, but with the time difference, I got there an hour after I left I also made the drive twice, about 30 hours (but we were together during that time, so it flew by)
This year, we're done with flying and it's around four hours by car. Not too bad, I'm glad to be done with airports, they pretty much doubled my travel time.

[goalie_girl34]

For me with two flights, a layover, and a time change it ended up taking me about 8 hours. I think the actual flight time was around 5 hours.

[fitfilipina]

We both have cars, but mine is (unfortunately) back home so I have to take the train. My SO drives a Jeep SUV, and with gas in Calif. being $4 a gallon nowadays, it can easily add up to a $75 trip... so he takes the train too.

If we both drove, the trip would take anywhere from 2-5 hours (2 when you're hauling ass straight down the 5 with no traffic, 5 when you're stuck bumper to bumper all the way from SD to LA). Anyone who knows Calif. public transportation knows it's long, tedious, and unreliable...so for me, it's usually a 3 1/2 hour trek (40 minute bus ride from my school to the train station, and then 3 hours from my station to his station). I'm rather lucky that it's a decently quick trip, but for him it's almost 6 hours (45 minute train ride, transfer, 2 1/2 hour train ride, then 2 hour bus ride). He takes the cheaper train (Metro vs. Amtrak = 15 dollar difference) but sometimes I feel like it's way too long on his end so I'll just pay the difference for him to get home more comfortably.

[loveknowsnodistance27]

From Long Island to Rochester:

By car: 7 hours
By train: 10ish hours
By airplane: 45 minutes-1 hour

I've driven and I've flown up there. I generally prefer flying obviously because it is the quickest amount of time to get to him. The drive wasn't too bad though. It was my first road trip, and I was 18 when I made the drive. I left at about 6:30 in the morning, stopped at 9 for an hour for breakfast and then drove straight through the rest of the way and arrived at his school at approximately 1:30pm. My SO has gone all three methods. Usually he takes the train, because it is pretty cheap for him and he does not have a car on campus. The only thing is that it is a long ride. He takes the train from Rochester to Penn Station in New York City and then he will hop on the Long Island Rail Road and take a 45 minute train ride to the station closest to our hometown, where I will usually be waiting for him to pick him up. He's driven a few times, well ridden in the car while another person who lives on LI drives him. He's flown twice, and I think he prefers the plane the most, but he cannot afford to fly very often though.


When he's home, though....it's a 2 minute car ride across town to see him!